About Me

My name is Rose and I am so blessed to be Mami to 2 beautiful daughters that think I am old as dirt :) but love me anyways and I have a lil maltese named Lola or as we lovingly call her "Pudge" Did I mention her greatest aspiration is to be a rotweiler when she grows up :) I love the process of creating, always have, but somewhere along the way art took a backseat to life, Thanks to all the wonderful ladies whos Blogs I have been lucky enough to discover, I have rediscovered the love of art and creating that I had been missing for so long. I love anything and everything beautiful. The older and more tarnished it is the more I love it. I love old lace,vintage sewing items, anything with roses, beautiful hand made items and soo much more, it would take another blog just to list :)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Before I begin my long awaited post :) I want to thank everyone from my heart for sending so much love to our wonderful friend Lorraine during her loss...she is such an amazing woman and I know she appreciates every ones love and concern during this time. She has a loving husband, children, family and friends that I know are there for her in her time of need, but I think knowing so many of us out here are thinking of her, must have made her heart smile, I know it did mine. Besos & huge hugs to all of you!

In Decemeber I won a wonderful Giveaway from the beautiful Rebecca of Rebecca for Vintage Living but to tell you what a heart she is, it was her Birthday...yet she did a giveaway for all her followers...see she is a total heart :) Anyways, the day before I got sick, a beautiful package came in the mail...then with me feeling so crappy...I actually forgot all about it...I know can you believe it!!! So when I opened it, I was just soo thrilled because I got one of her beautiful stars with some lil pretties :) and you know I love her Christmas stars... with all the creams and mochas, but I also LOVE the star I got, the colors are so rich and the materials she chose are so luxurious...I LOVE velvet & vintage trims...without knowing it....she sent me such a beautiful piece of art for my lil bebe art studio :) I know...lucky me right ! I feel so bad though because I know my pictures do not do my gifts justice....Rebecca amor, I am soo sorry for that....But I know, that you know....I LOVE them :)

This is the gorgeous package I saw when I opened my box...who am I kidding, mr wonderful opened the box and handed me this beauty :) I was so weak from the bad cold/flu, fever & body aches, that my fingers hurt from trying to pull the tabs apart on the box...(awww I love sympathy when I am sick...thank you :) lol

Look at the details of this gorgeous package!!! (clik on pictures to enlarge) the flower is so beautiful as is the tag that she made for me...oooh another beautiful tag for my collection :) If anyone wants to send me some of their own tags...I will hang them up in my bebe studio to display their beauty :) (shamless I know....but hey in my defense I have like 4 tags now and until Dawn told me what ATC's are...I had no idea, I thought it was like an art club :) lol

This is the gorgeousness (is that even a word?) that was inside...Look at the colors, I wish you could see how beautiful it really is, again so sorry for the pictures Rebecca.... The colors are in rich jewel tones...the textures and trims just gorgeous! I think this is vintage silver metal tinsel...although I would have to ask my dear friend Rebecca because I don't know too much about beautiful trims other than I LOVE them :)

Again please, clik on the pictures to enlarge, mr wonderful helped me take all these...so I guess I can blame him...Ha!!! I know I am such a goober...had I taken them I know I would have cut things out :) you should see how many pictures we have that have body parts missing lol Thank goodness for digital...processing pictures was getting expensive with all my booboos :) look at this lovely necklace I got too, you should see how beautiful the stone colors are...

Here are all my beautiful gifts...lucky me...I know :)

Wanna know an amazing thing....Rebecca is having another beautiful giveaway...I am telling you all about it below.....Lucky you!!!!

There seems to be sooo much beautiful & generous Giveaway love going on right now in our lovely BlogLand...and that is besides the Gigantic One World Giveaways that are going on now :) Here are a few really special one that I want to share with you....

But first... because as usual I am late with everything....I know...it is such a bad habit :( But none the less I share this wonderful news with you...our beautiful & big generous hearted, our dear friend... Dawn of The Feathered Nest is having a 3 Year Blogiversary Giveaway!!! 3 Years can you believe that...and that doesn't include her 1000 + posts she has :) I know so many of you have already congratulated her...but if you haven't visit her and give her some love :)

Look at the beautiful treasures that Dawn is giving to one lucky winner :)

2nd Giveaway...Also ending on February 14th....The beautiful Rebecca of Rebecca for Vintage living is having a Feeling the Love Giveaway....Look at the beautiful necklace that she made for 1 lucky winner...since I don't want to appear too greedy...I would even love that gorgeous envelope pillow she made behind it :) ( I hope that is what it is...I am usually wrong with art work :)

3rd Giveaway...The beautiful Lisa of Tarnished and Tattered is having a Thank You Giveaway...She like Dawn and Rebecca makes some of the most beautiful art creations and like them she also is of generous heart and shares with you how to make some of their gorgeous works...Look at all the beautiful treasures she has lovingly picked out for us :) Her giveaway ends February 22nd.

4th Giveaway...The beautiful Karyn of French Charmingis having a Whole Lot of Love Giveaway and that is exactly what she is giving away to one lucky winner..Look at the picture below :) Giveaway ends February 28th!

Now....please go and visit all these wonderful ladies and enjoy visiting their beautiful blogs and while your there...don't forget to enter for a chance to win :)

I have my own giveaway to share with you still, I just wanted to share these wonderful giveaways first...I have some more gifts I received to share with you and if I forgot to mention YOUR giveaway...please let me know and I will add it to my next post!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Today, I feel like I am finally getting over a bad cold/flu, I can now laugh without wheezing and do somethings around the house without feeling completely worn out, infact I was starting to feel so good I had a new post for you...but in light of a dear friend from our beautiful blogging communities loss, I have decided to share my post with you tomorrow. You see, today I was feeling well enough to visit some more of my favorite blogs that have new posts and when I visited one of my favorites Paper Bird, I saw that my sweet friend, the beautiful and loving Lorraine of Paper Bird, had lost her beloved beautiful mama early this morning...my heart just stopped for a moment as I thought about the pain and the loss that she must be feeling at this moment. If you have never visited Lorraines blog before, please do, it is so beautiful....not just for her art work or the beauty that is her blog, but because of the beauty of her heart, she writes from her heart and is so genuine..her posts sometimes make me laugh or cry, many times she makes me think or helps me to remember some long forgotten memory by sharing something of hers...When we lost my dad last March, I was overwhelmed by grief, having just lost my Ita, (grandma) who was my heart and light 2 years before..his loss was almost unbearable, but with the help of my mama, my family and loving friends...including so many of you out here in Blogland that shared your losses and stories with me and showed me how to go on with such love and grace....it has made all the difference in my life...for that I thank you all....I hope you all can share some of that love and hope that you shared with me......That you all.... can now share some of it with Lorraine and her family...Having just my mama left as my rock and strength, just the thought of losing her her can overwhelm me, so ...I can not even imagine what she must be feeling right now at this moment...Lorraine amor, my heart and love & friendship, is with you at this moment...May you and your family feel your mama all around you and in your hearts, in the up coming days and months...Much love to you my sweet friend. Thinking of you and your family..Rose

Whenever I think of Lorraine, this is the picture of her that comes into my hearts eye, smiling, sitting with the love of her life...I hope soon she will be smiling like this again...

my dear friend, I hope you don't mind me borrowing this beautiful picture of you and your love...Until next time dear friends, may your hearts know no more saddness for a very long time and may your hearts instead be filled with the love and laughter and happiness of your family and loving friends....Besos, Rose~